Ta Da!!!

Thank you all for your patience in waiting for me to write another blog.  I had a major jam-up in the writing wiring of my brain.  Maybe it's the eight years of blogging or maybe it's because I write more in my journal in the mornings.  Whatever it is, let's hope I am on a roll and can stay with it.  
There is a big birthday coming up this year and although mine is one of them, (more on that later,) our first grandchild will be thirteen in two weeks.  We called him "Peanut" when he was born three-and-a-half weeks early and was just under six pounds. I had a bad case of grandma-itis which I still have; just not so intense (six more grandchildren gave me more perspective.)  I went to Chicago every two weeks just to see him.  I went by train, plane or automobile.  A couple of times I flew to Chicago, his mom picked me up at the airport and we drove back to Michigan.  He was just a little baby then and to keep him quiet he would suck on my finger half the way home.  Then we would drive back to Chicago and I would fly home the next day.  
I cannot believe he will be thirteen.  I have waited with bated breath to see if there are any teenage "changes" in his personality and although there are some, he still loves his Grammy.  I hope he always shows me or tells me that he loves me like he does now. There are new ways to relate to teens in this day and age. He got an iPhone (spelling?) for his birthday that he helps pay for and now he is texting me which I just love.     How cool is that??  What a nice way to stay in touch. 
 Now, I am realistic enough to know that things may change in the next couple of years; but I pray everyday that he will keep his loving and tender heart.  He is really waiting to be as tall as me and I think he will make it this summer.  It's fun to watch him grow.  Some day he will walk up to me and look me in the eyes and then soon after that, he will be looking down at me.  
I just love that boy!